Production
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where
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Benin [kingdom]
Photographer: Jörg von Bruchhausen | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Memorial head of a queen mother
The large number of commemorative heads from this period are highly formalised. Their faces are largely identical, whereas the royal insignia are more elaborate and their shapes vary; in contrast to the king's round cap, the queen mother wears a pointed, slightly forward-curved cap made of coral beads.
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Cataloguing data
- Object type
- Plastic
- Dimensions
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Wandstärke: 0,5 cm
Height: 47 cm
Depth: 24 cm
Width: 22 cm
Weight: 13,6 kg - Material/Technique
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Brass, Sound
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III C 8185
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Production
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when
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19th century
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where
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Nigeria
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Collecting
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who
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Eduard Schmidt - Collectors
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Description
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19th century, commissioned by the Igun Eronmwon or Guild of Brass Casters in the Kingdom of Benin; location unknown in the Kingdom of Benin until 1897; probably looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; in unknown possession after the conquest of the Kingdom of Benin; collected by Consul Eduard Schmidt, employee of the Woermann line, between 1897 and 1898 in the territory of later colonial Nigeria; sold to the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, 1898.
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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